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" COTTON REPORT FOR JULY. 35,662,000 Acres In CultivationCondition of Crop 81.8. Washington, July 3:?A total areaj of 35,662,000 acres of cotton is in cultivation in the United States, according to the preliminary estimate j of the United States Department of Agriculture bureau of statistics announced at noon today. This compared with 34,766,000 acres, the revised estimate of acreage in cultivation a year ago, 36,045,000 acres in 1911, 32,403,000 acres in 1910, 30,938,000 acres in 1909 and 32,444,000 acres in 1908. The condition of the growing cot ton crop on June 25 was 81.8 per cent of normal condition,as compared with 79.1 percent May 25,1913, 80.4 per cent June 25, 1912, and 80.2 per cenc the average condition June 25 for the past ten years. The area planted by States, with comparisons, follows: STATES. j 11913. 1912. Virginia. 50,000 47.000 North Carolina.- 1.560,000 1,560.000 South Carolina. I 2,716,000 2,716,000 Georgia. 5,336,000 5.390,000 Florida 230.000 245,000 Alabama. r.804,000 8,766,000 Mississippi 1,166,000 2,985.000 Louisiana 1,166,000 972,000 Texas 11,732.000 11,390,000 Tennea ee 2,117,000 2.799,000 Arkanaas 823,000 2.055.'W0 Missouri 113,000 107.000 Oklahoma 2.916,000 2,725.000 California. 14,000 9,000 rtf tKo crrnwincr cotton VAJUUUIUU vuv rt- ?_ crop by States June 25 and May 25 this year, with comparisons,for June 25,1912, and the ten-year average on June 25, follows: JunM'yJun 10" states. 25, I 25, 25, y'r 1913'1913 1912 av. Virginia 81 j 83 87 94 North Carolina 76' 76 83 81 South Carolina ?.. 731 68 79 80 Georgia 741 69 72 gi Florida 85 83 76 85 Alabama. 79; 75 76. 79 Mississippi 821 81 74 78 Louisiana 811 81 74; 78 Texas 86 84 99' 81 Arkansas 86, 85 77 80 Tennessee 87 87 76 82 Missouri. 88 90 75 82 Ckiahoma 89 87 82 . 80 California. 95 % 98l . An increase of 856,000 acres in the area planted to cotton this year and an improvement of 2.7 per cent in the condition of the crop over May 25 were the features of the July cotton report of the Department of Agriculture, issued today, which was the first official estimate of the acreage this year and the condition June 25. With the increased acreage and a better condition by 1.4 per cent over last year and 1.6 per cent over the 10-year average on June 25 indications point to a larger crop than the big one produced in 1912. Texas reported an increase of 342,000 acres in area planted and the condition of the plant there improved 2 per cent over May. Geororin rpnnrted a slight decrease in acreage, but the condition improved 5 per cent from May to June. Increases in acreage also were reported from Alabama,Mississippi,Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Virginia. Lines from Leo. Leo, July 7:?Everybody is busy gathering tobacco. Crops are looking fine. We had a fine rain Sunday night and the weather is much cooler this mnrninir. We had preaching Sunday morning at Prospect by Rev Daniel Durant. He gave us a fine sermon just ashe always does. We hope "Uncle" Durant many years yet with us. There was also preaching at Little Star Baptist church Sunday by the Rev Tom Poston. He preached a fine sermon, too. We hope all of this good preaching by these God-fearing men will have a good effect on the people and that they will turn from their evil ways and serve the Lord more faithfully in the future. Mr R A Brown, his mother and two sisters,Elise and Alberta,attended the picnic at Lambert on the 2nd and reported a fine time. The fourth passed off quietly around .Leo. Messrs R A Brown, R L Carter, Misses Elise and Clida Lawrence took a trip over to Lake City in Mr Brown's auto on the fourth. We hfcd a fine rain on the fourth, which was greatly needed. At this writing Mr J Q Lyerly is quite sick with la grippe and we hope he-will soon recover. Mr R A Brown made a flying trip to Moore's X Roads Sunday afternoon. Mr J Whit Powell has cured for Mr R A Brown a barn of priming, the prettiest bright yellow that your pencil pusher ever saw. Mr Brown has 40 acres that is considered fairly good tobacco. |m ill Sires, Otlsr Isaidiss In't Cart {The worst cases, no natter of how loot standing, are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Dr. Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil. It re litres JFsis sad Heals at the asms time. 26c, Wc, $L?. TO THE FARMERS OF THE SOOTH, WHAT A MODIFIED BANKING SYSTEM WOULD MEAN TO I Ht tuiiun (IKUVTE.K3. Fort Worth, Texas, July 8:?I want to speak a word to the farmers and bankers of this nation through [ the press on the plans of cooperation I in marketing cotton which has been ! adopted in Texas and it is one which j can be easily extended to all States and to all products. If the plan is not readily adjustable to conditions beyond Texas, then I submit the spirit of co-operation as worthy of emulation by the agricultural and financial interests of every community in the United States. In Texas cotton is the money crop and the problem of marketing it intelligently has absorbed the atten tion of the leaders of economic thought for half a century. The crop is ofttimes mortgaged and debt is such a hard taskmaster that the farmer, in order to escape it, rushes to the market with his products and down goes the price and the anxiety for the annual pay day causes many others to seek an early market. To relieve the pressure the bankers are advancing the farmers $35 per bale at 6 per cent, payable when the cotton is sold. The title to the cotton rests with the farmer and he can sell when he pleases and there is no longer occasion for disposing of his crop on a weak or glutted market. There is a strong demand in Texas for money at 8 and 10 per cent on terms to suit the lender and an offer to lend the farmers on demand at 6 per cent is a concession on the part of the bankers which the 1 farmers appreciate. I estimate that it will require approximately $40,000,000 to hold the distress cotton off the market, and this amount the 1 ?? i J fn ion^ DanKers nave maue avaimuic iu kuu on cotton stored in our warehouses. It will require a much smaller sum to handle the business, as the money the farmer borrows will be paid on his debts or spent in his home town and most of it will be immediately re-deposited in the bank, available for lending again. We have 350 1 warehouses in the interior and adequate storage facilities are provided at the ports to take care of all cotton which cannot be accommodated in the interior. Many bankers in Texas have for several years been lending money to farmers without compensation or at a very low rate of interest to buy blooded livestock, build silos, etc, ' ? ? of ana no usurer wnu evei uuwcu 01, the shrine of the dollar received as large returns on the investment as these progressive bankers who made loans without interest to uplift productive industry. The spirit of the builder which actuated the bankers in these smaller transactions is now i extended into the financing of the cotton crop on a mammoth scale and the returns will be correspondingly increased. The work has had its hardships and has met with such obstacles as ( all progressive movements invariably ( encounter. It will have to break 1 the shackles of shiftless habits of many farmers, melt the adamant heart of many bankers and it has i become the target of ridicule and ' suspicion of the near-sighted. I want to here name a few of God Almighty's noblemen who have co-operated in working out the plans and who have given their time, influence and loaned their money under this arrangement to finance warehouses throughout the entire State: W H " " /\ n UL nr iL. Eiflaieman.een u omiin, rort nurui, B B Cain, D E Waggoner, Dallas; Joe Hirsch, Corpus Christi, I H Kempner.Galveston; James Garrity, Corsicana; Edwin Chamberlain, San Antonio; W H Fuqua, Amarillo; and hundreds of other bankers who are financing cotton in local warehouses. The parties whose names I have mentioned have loaned money on cotton throughout the entire State: Heaven loaned earth the spirit of theseIben. They are not actuated by philanthropic motives; they are shrewd bankers; they are men of exceptional business ability who are big enough to roll into place the \ i I Now Well I B "Thedford's Black-Draught H is the best all-round medicine H H lever used." writes ]. A. |J Steelman, of Pattonville, Texas. I "1 suffered terribly with liver B troubles, and could get no relief. B The doctors said I had con- Bj sumption. 1 could not work at B all. Finally I tried B 1 THEOFORD'S I D! API/. I I ULHUIV | I DRAUGHT I and to my surprise, I got better, B B and am to-day as well as any B B man." Thedford's Black- I M Draught is a general, cathartic, flj vegetable liver medicine, that B B has been regulating irregulari- B B ties of the liver, stomach and B . B bowels, for over 70 years. Get B < B a package today. Insist on the B j B genuine?Thedford's. E-70 B j - i cornerstones of empires. It is the custom in Texas and otheu Southern States to market sixtyfive per cent of the crop the first *' it-- -r .I? i tnree muntns U1 me narveav ocason, which results in weakening and ofttimes glutting the market. At least two-thirds of the cotton farmers are tenants and there is approximately an eighty million dollar mortgage against their crop each year due when the cotton is picked and the farmer is forced to sell to meet his obligations. The bankers will now advance him as much as $35.00 per bale on his cotton at six per cent interest, payable at his option, which will take the cotton out of distress and ?nable the farmer to hold it until the price is satisfactory and make a glut easily avoidable. The consumption of cotton is distributed evenly throughout the year and should be marketed as the spinners demand it. There are so many factors that enter into fixing the price that no one influence can be satisfactorily segregated and reduced to a cash basis, but in my opinion the slow marketing of cotton will increase the farm price at least from 2$ to 5 cents per pound net over the price obtained under present methods, making a minimum net saving fn tlia ^ormor n-f Jrifl OOO 000 It ie up to the farmer to take advantage of the facilities offered. Of the 1913 cotton crop, Texas produced 4,880,210 bales out of 14,313,015 bales produced in the United States and a possible 20,000,000 bales in the world. The 1912 Texas cotton crop sold at a farm price of $338,538,822, including lint and seed. The annual world consumption during 1911,the latest available reports, was 20,402,000 bales. The cotton yield per acre in Texas in 1912 was 206 pounds, valued at $23.69. The value of the yield per acre of cotton is the greatest of any staple crop in ?1- ? Tfa nnornof or?V> ia j U1C VV UI IU. JL wo uvm wv appi vavn 10 corn $14.22 per acre for 1912 in the United States. Surprising Gure of Stomach Trouble. When you have trouble with your stomach or chronic constipation, don't imagine that your case is beyond help just because your doctor fails to give you relief. Mrs G Stengle, Plainfield, N J, writes: "For over a month past I have been troubled with my stomach. Everything I ate upset it terribly. One of Chamberlain's advertising booklets came to me. After reading a few of the letters from people who had been cured by Chamberlain's Tablets, I decided to try them. I have taken nearly three-fourths of a package of them and can now eat almost everything that I want." For sale by all dealers. adv The County Record $1 a year. No. 666 Thi? it a pretcription prepared especially br MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or tix doaea will break any case, and if taken then at a tonic the Fever will not return. 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Wh/ rou learn how small a sum is require/ jo pay the premium on a policy for one, fear.you surely ought never to take the :hance of the troubles of this poor famiy. Cingstree Insurance, Real Estate & Loan Co; R. N. Speigner, Manager. FI R l|f 1866 19ia T orv\ rvlno oa/l>+. JL CLLLl announce to patrons and i$k* public at large J(p&\ After the lOth init. ,? [ will be fully, pr& pared to carry oit the practice of DENTISTRY^ in all its denS^ ments. r*q r,nll nn mp tfiwi. VA* AAA V/ ^ | want 1 " I I J First Class WorK f. I at jl & Prices to Suit. # I ; A. M. Snider. l 3ff)c8 mr 6aillo & Jacobs' Drag Ston, I Opposite The Record Office. I fl Acetylene Lighting | Systems | Tn +Viru:o wVin ^nntpnri- * XV/ V11VUV VI ?AV w-M plate the inspiration of ' a system of Acetylene Gas Lights' for fheir store buildings; hes school-houses ell- J ings, we wiU W^sbed; I to show our liije of gen era tors and fixtures and" fl and prices for complete jfl installation. All work guaranteed. 1 Hamer-Thompson Company I Kingsfree, S. C. I WATfs & WATT$ THE Krl6STREE JEWELERS L; We keep on hand every- 14' thing to be found in an <Jp up>io-date j ewelry house ,, Repairing and engraving f done with neatness and t despatch. *: As home V dealers} guaranteeing f quanty and prices, We Solicit Your Patronage Near th* Railroad Station. ?Jr Why Scratch^ ?EM| "Hunt's Cure" is guar* anteed. to Stop and f^fenrtanently cure that'' terrible itching. It is compounded for that I purpose and your money MB will be pronpt'.y refunded H WITHOUT QUESTIO? if Hunt's Cure fails i^fvi H Itch, Eczema, Tetter, Rinf, H Worm or any other Skin " H Disease. 50c at your druggist's, or by mail H direct if be hasn't it Manufactured only h" 'H K 3 RICHARDS MEMM CO.. Sfcrwt.Ttr